Features/Interviews

The recent imprisonment of two lawyers convicted of assault has given rise to a conflict between Egypt’s two poles of…

It was a grim scene Monday afternoon at the San Sousi coffee shop, tucked away on a Giza side-street. The…

With continuing strikes and protests against the five-year prison sentence handed down to two lawyers--Ehab Saei el-Din and Mustafa Fatuh,…

Assiut--In the realm of sexual taboos in Egypt, the issue of "intersex individuals"--or those born with "ambiguous genitalia"--is certainly somewhere…

Since his return to Egypt, Mohamed ElBaradei's efforts to build a popular consensus around political reform have captivated the Egyptian…

In an interview on 9 June with prominent journalist Lamis el-Hadidi on her show "From the Heart of Egypt", Prime Minister…

A self-described "beach boy" leading a quiet life in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, Messawa has found himself at the center of…

Coptic divorcee Hani Wasfi has raised a lawsuit against the Coptic Church’s refusal to allow him to remarry. Wasfi won…

President Hosni Mubarak’s decision to open the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip for an indefinite period…

After new amendments to Egypt’s Emergency law that pledged the release of all detainees except those who were being kept…